Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World

A stunning and timely creative call-to-arms combining four extraordinary written pieces by Neil Gaiman.

"The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before."amp;mdash;Neil Gaiman

Drawn from Gaiman's trove of published speeches, poems, and creative manifestos, Art Matters is an embodiment of this remarkable multi-media artist's visionamp;mdash;an exploration of how reading, imagining, and creating can transform the world and our lives.

Art Matters bring together four of Gaiman's most beloved writings on creativity and artistry:

• "Credo," his remarkably concise and relevant manifesto on free expression, first delivered in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shootings
• "Make Good Art," his famous 2012 commencement address delivered at the Philadelphia University of the Arts
• "Making a Chair," a poem about the joys of creating something, even when words won't come
• "On Libraries," an impassioned argument for libraries that illuminates their importance to our future and celebrates how they foster readers and daydreamers.

Art Matters is a stirring testament to the freedom of ideas that inspires us to make art in the face of adversity, and dares us to choose to be bold.